May I Have a Piece (3 hours) was part of a performance event that took place in 09 Gallery, Netanya, as part of an exhibition opening and the launching of the second issue of & Magazine. For the event, 8 contemporary artist's were invited by curator Maya Kashevitz to reenact or to react to classical performance pieces (by Tino Segal, Marina Abramovic, Josef Beus, among others).
In this context, May I Have a Piece is a negative homage to Yoko Ono's Cut Piece. The concept of this piece is to take the components of Ono's famous piece (the scissors, the incitement of the audience to cut a piece of cloth, the active vs. the passive, the compassion vs. de agression), but instead of sitting in a hall as an inanimate sculpture from whom the public takes something, I chose to walk among the audience, outside the gallery and directly request people to cut a piece from their own clothes so I can sew myself a blanket. The result was too a negative of Cut Piece. Instead of moving from delicacy to direct agression, through May I Have a Piece, the alienation slowly turned into a dialogue on issues as compassion and excess.
In this context, May I Have a Piece is a negative homage to Yoko Ono's Cut Piece. The concept of this piece is to take the components of Ono's famous piece (the scissors, the incitement of the audience to cut a piece of cloth, the active vs. the passive, the compassion vs. de agression), but instead of sitting in a hall as an inanimate sculpture from whom the public takes something, I chose to walk among the audience, outside the gallery and directly request people to cut a piece from their own clothes so I can sew myself a blanket. The result was too a negative of Cut Piece. Instead of moving from delicacy to direct agression, through May I Have a Piece, the alienation slowly turned into a dialogue on issues as compassion and excess.
